An Open Letter to Gen Raheel Shareef – by Lt. Col (R) Abdul Naeem: Dear General, No gainsaying the fact that, today Pakistan is going through its most dangerous existential. The very survival of its state and society is at peril. I am sure that with the vast intelligence apparatus at your disposal;

Through Many Pakistans: A Journalist’s Journey Home – by Abdul Hai Kakar: Visiting Pakistan, my home country, is never easy. I was eager to see friends and family after being away for more than two years. They did their best to dissuade me from making the journey, but I insisted, responding,

Express Tribune and Punjab government protect terrorists: Pakistani Christians are repeat victims of Deobandi Terrrorists: It has been reported in the Express Tribune, that an Okara Christian Church has been vandalized by Okara residents. This is a vague and almost silly news item of very little journalistic value.  Yes a place of worship has been

Ahmadi rights activist Yasser Latif Hamdani’s hate campaign against Shia Muslims:   Related post: Mazhar Ali Azhar Deobandi and Ahrar: Yasser Latif Hamdani recycles Shia-phobia! – See more at: https://lubpak.com/archives/307463 Pakistan’s Sunni, Shia and secular activists have strongly condemned and rejected blogger and Ahmadi rights activist Yasser Latif Hamdani’s hate

Very disturbing video of a 2-year old Deobandi toddler chanting Shia Kafir, brandishing large knife: This very distrubing video shows how extremist Deobandi Muslims in Pakistan brainwash their children turning them into killing machines and terrorists of Taliban (TTP) and Sipah-e-Sahaba (ASWJ). The video was uploaded on a Deobandi facebook page on 6 March

Hamid Mir, a champion of the Balochs?: Related posts: Hamid Mir, the murderer! https://lubpak.com/archives/69530 Sympathize with Hamid Mir but don’t turn him into a hero of human rights or liberal values https://lubpak.com/archives/312217 جیو اور حامد میر بمقابلہ آئی ایس آئی: عاصمہ جہانگیر اور فہمیدہ ریاض کا

اسلام آباد کچہری کے حملے میں تکفیری دیوبندی لال مسجد کی غازی فورس ملوث ہے: پاکستان کے دار الحکومت اسلام آباد کے عین وسط میں واقع کچہری میں طالبان یا ان کے نیے نام سے کام کرنے والے گروہ کا صبح سویرے حملہ کرنا ، آزادانہ انداز میں داخل ہونا ، اطلاعات کے مطابق

Wahhabism vs Wahhabism: Qatar vs Saudi Arabia: Editor’s note:  We are cross posting excerpts from two articles. The first one looks at the deeper causes of the friction between the Wahhabi (Salafi) monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The second refers to the Al Arabia news

Obama gives stern warning to Israel: stop assassinations of Iranian scientists: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and other rights groups never highlight this aspect of execution of alleged spies and Israeli agents in Iran, perhaps they are afraid to be critical of Isreal for the terror they inflict on other countries.

Baloch nationalist groups in Iran and Pakistan are intertwined with Deobandi and Salafi terror outfits: This article published in the International Policy Digest shows how some sections of Baloch nationalist groups in Iran and Balochistan are intertwined with Deobandi and Salafi-Wahhabi terrorist outfits. http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2014/03/05/iranian-balochi-extremist-groups-silent-lack-unity/ “Extremist groups who made headlines in the past months include

A life less ordinary: Mian Iftikhar and the five stages of a man – by Zehra Abid: Hussain recites the Holy Quran during the first death anniversary of his son Mian Rashid Hussain held at Nishtar Hall, Peshawar PESHAWAR:It’s been many years since Mian Iftikhar Hussain slept at night with the sense of surety that there

We can get rid of Assad or fight al-Qaeda, but we can’t do both – by Peter Oborne:   For the past three years, when seeking enlightenment about the Syrian crisis, I have often talked to Alastair Crooke, a former MI6 officer. Mr Crooke, who left government service a decade ago after a long career, now runs

عبداللہ ابن سبا سے بلیک واٹر تک : طالبان دہشت گردی اور تیسرے ہاتھ کی تاریخی حقیقت – از خرم زکی: ادارتی نوٹ : بردار خرم زکی نے اپنی تحریر میں ایک اہم نکتے کی جانب تاریخی حوالوں سے توجہ دلائی ہے – خارجی تکفیریوں نے تاریخ اسلامی کو مسخ کر کے ہمیشہ اپنے بڑوں کی غلطیوں کو ایک فرضی

سعودی ایما پر شام میں پاکستانی مداخلت: کیا ہم حکومتی تردید پر یقین کر سکتے ہیں؟ – از وسعت الله خان: سرزمین ِ حجاز سے برِصغیری مسلمانوں کا لگاؤ اور الفت شائد حجازیوں اور سلفی نجدیوں سے بھی سوا ہے۔ہر مسلمان بچہ اور کچھ جانے نہ جانے مگر اتنا ضرور جانتا ہے کہ مکہ اور مدینہ کس خطے میں ہے۔حجاز

The footprints of Deobandi militant jihad in India and Pakistan – by Maloy Krishna Dhar: Related post: Historical context and roots of Deobandi terrorism in Pakistan and India – See more at: https://lubpak.com/archives/306115 I have been sharing whatever knowledge I have about security threat to India from internal and external forces which believe in

Mazhar Ali Azhar Deobandi and Ahrar: Yasser Latif Hamdani recycles Shia-phobia!: In his recent post on Pak Tea House blog (chief edited by Raza Rumi), lawyer-blogger Yasser Latif Hamdani has recycled one of his own articles published on Pak Tea House on 15 November 2009 to implicate Shia Muslims in

Deobandi terrorists’ (TTP) ceasefire: should Pakistan be taken seriously? – by Ayaz Amir: So there we have it. The resolve stories were a bit premature. Appeasement wins again and of course it will be hailed as a triumph of statesmanship. And the army while scowling in private will in public hide behind

Was Fizza Malik not daughter of Pakistan – by Syed Taheer Hussain: This is Fizza Malik, 25-years-old, lawer fell prey to Deobandi Taliban-allied organisation Deobandi Al Ahralul Hind’s terrorism along with a sessions judge and 10 other people in Islamabad today. Until yesterday, she was an aspiring lawyer in her very

Islam: A Tale of two Sects – by Agha Shaukat Jaferi: The seeds of schism in Islam were sown almost 1400 years ago, immediately after the demise of the Prophet of Islam (pbuh), and the events that ensued witnessed nothing but bloodshed, and destruction within the ranks of Muslims. The

Historical context of Ahrar-ul-Hind, the new alias of Deobandi terrorists: A previously unknown group Ahrarul Hind has accepted responsibility of suicide bombing and brutal killings of people in district and session courts in Islamabad on 3 March 2014. Media is telling us that this is a splinter group of the